Martha Hughes Cannon is one step closer in her march to the nation’s capital. The women’s suffrage activist and doctor is being considered for one of Utah’s two statues inside the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

The movement to replace the statue of Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, which currently stands in the Capitol, has little to do with people disliking him and everything to do with Cannon’s legacy.

Octogenarian Sen. Orrin Hatch joked that both of them were his “friends.”

“As a dear friend of both Mattie and Philo, I deeply appreciate their prolific contributions and trust the capable hands of our state legislature to determine who to send to our nation’s capital,” Hatch told Roll Call in a statement.

A resolution to switch the statues passed the Utah state House on Wednesday, with the stipulation that the new one be unveiled in August 2020 — on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

Cannon’s journey now heads back to the state Senate, and then on to the governor’s desk.

A relative of Cannon’s and fellow Utah native is already in the Capitol — freshman Rep. John Curtis.

Cannon was Curtis’ wife’s great-grandfather’s wife. She famously defeated her husband in a race for Utah Senate in 1896, making her the first female state senator.